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WASHINGTON The first meeting of the House Freedom Caucus, founded by nine conservatives in search of a more hard-line alternative to the Republican Study Committee, was supposed to be concerned with organization: drafting the bylaws, choosing a leadership structure, figuring out staffing and dues. But the two dozen or so members invited to the meeting were less interested in the nuts and bolts of forming a caucus than they were with winning a bitter fight with Democrats over immigration policy. Specifically, the group was trying to figure out what course to take if the Senate couldn't come to a vote on a Homeland Security appropriations bill that the House had amended to nullify...

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